Strange Stories of Colonial Days

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Various. Strange Stories of Colonial Days

Strange Stories of Colonial Days

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INTRODUCTION

STRANGE STORIES OF. COLONIAL DAYS

I. THE CROWNING OF POWHATAN. Adventures in Early Indian History

II. CORNELIS LABDEN’S LEAP. A Legend of 1645 Retold

III. TOMMY TEN-CANOES. A Tale of King Philip’s Scout

IV. JONATHAN’S ESCAPE. A Young Hero of Hadley who Fought at Turner’s Falls in 1676

V. THE CROWN OF AN AMERICAN QUEEN. In the Days of Bacon’s Rebellion in Virginia

Footnotes

VI. HOW A BLACKSMITH’S BOY BECAME A KNIGHT. The Treasure-hunt of William Phipps in the late Seventeenth Century

VII. THE GIRL CAPTAIN OF CASTLE DANGEROUS. How Three Children Fought the Iroquois in 1692

VIII. HOW MARC WAS MADE CAPTAIN. A Rescue from the “Lords of the Woods” in 1695

IX. CAPTAIN KIDD. An Overrated Pirate

X. HOWARD THE BUCCANEER. A Captain of Many Ships

XI. TEW, OF RHODE ISLAND. A Fighter from the Seas

XII. THE VROUW VAN TWINKLE’S KRULLERS. A Story of Old New York

XIII. THE SIGN OF THE SERPENT. A Story of Louisiana in the Early Eighteenth Century

Footnotes

XIV. A DRUMMER OF WARBURTON’S. How a Boy Held Fort George at Cape Canso, in 1757

XV. ROGERS’ RANGERS. The Famous New Hampshire Scouts of the Old French War

XVI. THE PLOT OF PONTIAC. How Detroit was Saved in 1763

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VIII HOW MARC WAS MADE CAPTAIN A Rescue from the “Lords of the Woods” in 1695

IX CAPTAIN KIDD An Overrated Pirate

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